Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-5081 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2009-5081 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-5081 Assigned: 20110630 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/4 Reference: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/5 Reference: http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff Reference: http://cvsweb.openwall.com/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/Owl/packages/groff/groff-1.20.1-owl-tmp.diff.diff?r1=1.1;r2=1.2;f=h The (1) config.guess, (2) contrib/groffer/perl/groffer.pl, and (3) contrib/groffer/perl/roff2.pl scripts in GNU troff (aka groff) 1.21 and earlier use an insufficient number of X characters in the template argument to the tempfile function, which makes it easier for local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0969. Statement: Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of groff as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6.
Created groff tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 720060]
groff-1.21-4.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
groff-1.21-4.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
groff-1.21-9.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.